In Love and Revolution: Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stephen Capus
Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Spring 2025
Spanish time and the tender paradoxes

time and the tender paradoxes of mortality

orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence

Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (Poetry Book) 2023

then to a sweet winter’s night in the South of France with Pablo Picasso and his small dog

In Love and Revolution: Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stephen Capus<br><b>Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Spring 2025</br> Spanish time and the tender paradoxesAnna Akhmatova was born near Odesa, Ukraine, in 1889, as Anna Gorenko. She adopted her pen name from the family of her mother. She attended school in Tsarskoe Selo, near St. Petersburg, and lived most of her life in that city with which so much of her poetry is intimately connected. She frequented the Tower, the famous literary salon of the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, and in 1910 she married fellow poet Nikolay Gumilev. The couple were divorced